Self-Organization: What Robotics can Learn from Amoebae
Amoebae are single-cell organisms. By means of self-organization, they can form complex structures – and do this purely through local interactions. "The phenomenon is well known," says Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey from LMU's Faculty of Physics. "Before now, however, no research group has investigated how information processing, at a general level, affects the aggregation of systems of agents when individual agents – in our case, amoebae – are self-propelled." More knowledge about these mechanisms would also be interesting, adds Frey, as regards translating them to artificial technical systems.
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